Next Life?

In 2002, the last two Siberian cranes of the central flock failed to return to India. Their winter home, Keoladeo National Park, reeled under a drought and there was no water to house the birds. They were not reported from anywhere else in the country. Two more winters passed, and the birds still did not show up. It is now suspected that they are extinct. (info from Wildlife Protection Society of India)

In search of water - Bharatpur.

December 23rd 2006
We set off from Agra after first stopping off at the Post Office to register a complaint about stuff going missing from the parcel we had collected when we arrived. I don’t know why we thought it was important to do this as I’m certain it will make no difference to anything, but we felt we should report it all the same. The ride out of Agra was manic but better then the ride in as we managed ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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